Working (and eating) from home

This is not my fault

I had to go buy milk a few minutes ago because we are all out and I wanted to have a smoothie for lunch. So I go to the little natural foods store near our apartment and I find the milk and then I realize that I only have $4 and this is a problem because the milk is $4.99. Luckily I had my debit card with me, but I was faced with two choices.

1. I could take $20 out of the ATM. This is was not a good option because if I have cash I immediately buy things like strawberries and cantaloupe and sometimes ice cream, and also because I would have to pay about $3 in fees for using this random foreign ATM and that would mean less strawberries and cantaloupe and ice cream.

2. I could spend $10 in the store because that is the minimum amount required to use your debit card.

It know that it is too late for me to say “to make a long story short” because clearly this is already a long story, but here is my point:

Figs. Yes. I bought enough figs to make up the extra $5.01. Actually, more, because my total was $11.41. That is over a pound of figs, all of which I will now eat, although hopefully not in one day. Cross your fingers for me. I already had three on the way home.

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I love figs, but I haven’t had them in a reaaaally long time because I’m a broke college student and only buy necessities. Now that I’m home for the summer and can get mumsy and dadsy to pay for groceries I’ve been tempted to buy my fair share of figs. I’m scared that I might become addicted, though, so I’ve just been eating all the other dried fruit that was already in the house when I got home…

@jenna: no, in South Sudan they probably won´t have much to eat, let alone dried figs. What this has to do with the topic is beyond me though. I suggest you stop posting annoying comments and start doing something useful, such as sending YOUR food to the Sudan or applying for an UN post (though you probably need to spell a lot better to even make a chance).
@couch cubicle: sorry for wasting space! I love reading your blog and your dilemma sounded strangely familiar to me 😀 I have almost no self-restraint around dried fruits either. (Though dates are even better than figs).

Hahaha I bought figs yesterday too 🙂 I wonder what would happen if we heated them up in the micro with some slivered almonds pr nuts and a little drizzle of maple n then threw that over some fage with mashed banan? I’m dangerous… Watch out 😉

I think you feel about figs how I feel about medjool dates… and almond butter. Good luck. I like to tell myself that the longer I wait to eat them, the more days I get to have them. It usually doesn’t work, because I often remind myself I can buy more but it’s worth a shot.